Example sentences of "this [be] a [noun] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ this is a case about abuse of the process of the High Court . |
| 2 | This is a video about staff stress in homes for children and elderly people from a management viewpoint . |
| 3 | This is a play about the perversion of nature by culture ( or ‘ custom ’ — i. ii . |
| 4 | This is a painting about the timelessness of Mexico , the moment the crown appeared , a distilled rather than a specific view . |
| 5 | This is a story about rafting down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon , about running America 's biggest rapids . |
| 6 | ‘ This is a story about love and the courage to express it when you feel it , ’ says Gibson . |
| 7 | as saying , you know , this is a story about this and that and you look at that |
| 8 | He stayed silent , quite obstinately , and she switched tone and said , ‘ This is a trip about cheering up , is n't it ? |
| 9 | This is a passage about The Slave Ship , painted by the artist in 1840 ; it comes from Modern Painters . |
| 10 | This is a one-off about 19th-century China . |
| 11 | This is a matter about which many sociolinguists feel sensitive , particularly since a large proportion of the communities which they study are repressed indigenous groups like the Aborigines , or underprivileged ethnic minorities like the American blacks or British Asians . |
| 12 | ‘ This is a show about painting , not about the meaning of Venetian civilisation ’ |
| 13 | He is emphatic that the works are to speak for themselves and about themselves : ‘ This is a show about painting , not about the meaning of Venetian civilisation ’ , he says . |
| 14 | Piers Rodgers is absolutely correct , ‘ this is a show about art , not politics ’ . |
| 15 | Piers Rodgers , the Academy 's Secretary , makes the point that this is a show about art , not politics : ‘ There is a long and distinguished history of art and culture in Tibet and that civilisation is under threat at the moment . |
| 16 | Er , Mr said this is a debate about personal freedom . |
| 17 | This is a judgment about noticeability . |
| 18 | This is a topic about which honest people can differ . |
| 19 | In part this is a complaint about the inferior service these establishments offer . |
| 20 | This is a movie about the fragility of relationships and hold on normality . |
| 21 | The central theme of hermeneutics , that action is to be understood from within , suggests that causal explanation is of interest only where people ( like physicists ) use causal explanation and that this is a fact about them , not about nature . |
| 22 | On the day we first saw the melin Nigel said , ‘ This is a place about people . ’ |
| 23 | The housewife says she has an old and inefficient vacuum cleaner : this is a statement about the inappropriateness of the tool to the work . |
| 24 | However , this is a book about the philosophy of mind rather than experimental psychology , and the main point that I want to make is rather more philosophical than psychological . |
| 25 | Having made his point so tellingly , Mr Foot makes no sweeping claims about his compilation , writing simply : ‘ This is a book about war , more than about art … it is meant to contribute to the history of war , rather than to art history . ’ |
| 26 | This is a book about books ; but some small space must be found for that art , and its products , which preceded printing by many thousands of years and without which there would have been no books at all — that of handwriting . |
| 27 | This is a book about baddies , yet it is not intended to be read by goodies , because there are n't many of them around . |
| 28 | This is a book about Orcs and Goblins and their armies in the Warhammer game . |
| 29 | This is a period about which little is known for few records survive of those days . |
| 30 | This is a process about which we have only recently become aware . |